Brussel: Around 1865. 9 x cm. Karl-Maria Kertbeny (1824–1882) was an Austro-Hungarian journalist, memoirist and early human rights campaigner. Kertbeny is renown for coining the words homosexual and heterosexual in 1869, in his anonymously published open letter (entitled “Das Gemeinschädliche des §143 des preussischen Strafgesetzbuches vom 14. April 1851 und..... More